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Remember when your mother used to yell up the stairs to get you to turn your music down? Sometimes, in the age before sensitivity awareness, dad would do the yelling and he’d substitute noise for music. Ah, the good old days. Too bad they aren’t here right now yelling at vendors. ConsumerAffairs.com is the brainchild […]

Oracle scored points in its ongoing battle with Salesforce.com for primacy in the CRM world. Personally, I am not sure it matters much because the two companies’ approaches to CRM are so different. Coke or Pepsi? Harley-Davidson or Honda? Who knows? At the end of the day, it’s about helping a customer realize a vision […]

Just before the holiday, Pepsi dropped a bombshell: they are cutting their Superbowl ads, instead spending $20 million on something called the Pepsi Refresh Project, a “social media” campaign that will hand out tens of millions of dollars to people who want to “refresh” their communities via good works. Of course, the social media universe […]

I attend a lot of conferences.
The two most recent ones I was at were both run by SAP. The first was the International SAP for Utilities conference in Munich, the second was the SAP TechEd conference in Vienna. Both events were very interesting for a variety of reasons but both conferences left a nasty […]